Coat and hat hooks



Jan. 12, 1960 J. B. MORSE, JR

con AND HAT HOOKS Filed July '7, 1955 fill/4% 1 I INVENTOR BY A w /f flw F ATTORNEYS United States Patent 2,920,854 COAT AND HAT nooxs Application .luly 7, 1955, Serial No. 520,534 1 Claim. (Cl. 248-417) This invention relates to a clothes hook, and more particularly a coat or hat hook designed to be'secured to a verticalwall or other supporting surface and project horizontally therefrom so that articles of clothing may be hung thereon. i

It is common to provide such devices with a plurality, that is two or more, of supporting hooks which project outwardly and more or less horizontally from a base or body portion to which the two hooks are rigidly secured or in some instances may be formed integrally with the body portion.

Also while in some instances the body portion of such a hook is provided with screw-receiving openings through which screws may be inserted to secure the hook in place, it is more convenient and economical to provide single screw rigidly secured to the rear face of the body portion of the hook to secure the device to a wall or, as is often times the case, to a board or other supporting device which in turn is secured to the wall. When a single screw is formed integrally with the body portion of the hook or rigidly secured thereto, the entire device will be turned with the screw to force the latter into the board or wall when the hook is mounted.

It is usual when two or more hooks are provided upon a supporting body portion that the latter will be of somewhat oblong shape or at least will not be of circular shape and, therefore, the securing screw cannot be positioned in the exact center of the rear face of the body portion. Therefore, when the device is rotated the surface of the wall or other supporting surface will be contacted by the rear face of the body portion of the hook and will leave marks or mars thereon which will be visible when the hook is in place. That is, as the rear face of the body portion is not in circular form, portions thereof will inevitably be at a greater distance from the screw than other portions and mars made upon the supporting surface by rotation of the device will necessarily be exposed.

It is contemplated by the present invention to provide a pad upon the rear face of the body portion of the hook which will be of circular shtpe, the rear surface of this pad being disposed in a plane rearwardly of that of the remainder of the rear face of the hook. The screw will be secured-to the body portion of the hook at the center of this circular area. As this area projects rearwardly beyond the remainder of the rear surface of the hook, it will be the only portion which will contact the wall when the device is secured into place, and as this protective or pad area is of circular form, no marks or mars will be exposed to view.

Therefore, with such a construction the screw may be rigid with the body portion of the hook, and the latter may be screwed into place with all mars or marks upon the supporting surface being obscured by the circular pad portion at the center of which the screw is mounted, this portion preventing the remainder or eccentric portion of the rear surface of the hook from contacting the support,

One object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved form of clothes hook.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved form of clothes hook having a supporting screw rigidly formed therewith, the rear face of the body portion of the hook being of such configuration that the hook may be screwed into place without leaving exposed mars or marks upon the supporting surface into which the screw is secured.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a coat hook having a body portion and one or more clothes-supporting hooks projecting forwardly therefrom with a rear surface having one portion projecting beyond the other at the rear face of the body portion of the hook, this projecting portion being of circular form and having a secured screw rigidly mounted at the center thereof so that the remainder of the surface of the rear face of the hook, or that portion eccentric to the screw, will be held in spaced relation to the supporting surface and, therefore, will not mar or mark the same.

To these and other ends the invention consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a clothes hook embodying my invention, the hook being shown as being secured to a substantially vertical supporting surface;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the hook; and

Fig. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof.

To illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention I have shown in the drawings a clothes hook comprising a body portion 10, having forwardly projecting arms or hook members 11 and 12, one of them as is usual lying below the other.

To the body portion of the hook and projecting rearwardly therefrom is secured a screw 13. This screw may be secured to the hook or may be formed integrallytherewith as desired. In any case the screw will be forced into the supporting member 14 by rotation of the hook itself.

As will be apparent, when a device of this character is provided with a plurality of supporting arms or hook portions the body portion 10 will usually, as in the present instance, be of greater dimensions in one direction than in the other. As shown herein the greater dimension is the vertical dimension of the hook as compared to its horizontal or lateral dimension. It will, therefore, be seen that if the rear surface or body portion 10 were a plane, flat area and the screw 13 secured to any portion thereof, some portions of the hook would be at a greater distance from the screw than others, thus leaving a visible mark or mar upon the supporting surface when the hook is screwed into place. As will be explained below, however, I so form the rear face of the body portion of the hook that no visible mars or marks will result.

To this end the rear face of the body portion of the hook is divided into two areas. The upper of these areas, designated at 15, is, as shown more especially in Fig. 3, of substantially circular shape and the screw 13 is located at the center thereof. This portion of the rear face of the hook, as shown more especially in Fig. 1, stands rearwardly of the remainder of the rear face of the body portion of the hook so that it is the portion which contacts the front face of the support 14. That is to say, the face of the area 15 is of planar form and lies in a plane rearwardly of the plane of the area or lower surface 16 of the rear face of the body portion of the hook, which lower surface will be spaced from the contiguous face of the support 14 by contact of the area 15 therewith.

The shape of the portion 16 is not of particular importance to the invention but, as shown,the:side edges 17 and 18of this portion taper or converge to some extent downwardly and at their upper ends are substantially tangent to the circular area 15 so as to give the hook a pleasing shape and appearance. It will be apparent "that with this construction, no portion of the area 116 will contact the face of the support '14. and, therefore, cannot mark the same. While the area "15 will contact the supporting surface, it is .of circular form, and as the screw is concentric therewith, any marks made .by'the contact of this surface with the support will "be covered and will not be visible when the hook'is in'place.

While I have shown and described a preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that it is not to be limited to all of the details shown, but is capable 'of -modification and variation within the spirit of the invention and within the scope of the claim. What I claim is:

A coat hook having a body portion, the vertical dimension of which is elongated relative "to its horizontal dimension, spaced hook members carried at the upper and 'lower edges respectively of the body portion and extending forwardly therefrom, a securing screw rigidly v 4 secured to the body portion and projecting rearwardly therefrom, the body portion of said hook having a stepped rear surface constitutedby two distinct planar areas lying in spaced substantially parallel planes, one of said areas being of circular form with the screw substantially at the center thereof, the other area lying forwardly of said one area in stepped relation thereto whereby it is spaced from a supporting surface into which the screw is secured, and thevsides of said other area being substantially tangent to the periphery of said first area and extending downwardly therefrom in converging relation, one of said hook members projecting forwardly from the upper edge of said circular area, and the other projecting forwardly from the lower edge of the area with said converging sides.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 239,465 Delany Mar. 29 1881 394,637 Baker Dec. 18, .1888 454,891 Thurston June 30, 1891 1,300,908 Williams .Apr.'15, 1919 2,663,531 Rubano Dec.r22, 1953 

